Suppressed, exploited, and without the last bit of fighting power.

There is no training at ordinary times. Once on the battlefield, whenever you see the enemy, you must be ready to run away.

There are not many servants, so if the battle goes wrong, the soldiers will flee.

For Wen Rensheng, it was enough to solve the problems of Ming Dynasty, Liaodong and peasant uprisings within 30 years.

There are 30,000 households for 150,000 people, and each household has one soldier, which can produce 30,000 soldiers.

In order to elite and reduce logistics, and improve mobility and combat effectiveness, he streamlined the 30,000 people again, and finally reduced them to 8,000 people.

Among them, there are 6,000 combat troops and 2,000 heavy baggage troops.

During the war, refugees were hired as porters.

2000 heavy troops are a matter of logistics related to professional training.

Cooking, setting up camp, and digging trenches are all things mentioned in ancient military books.

In fact, there are all kinds of methods. The reason why Ming Dynasty failed was not that he didn’t know the method, but that he knew it but didn’t want to use it, couldn’t use it, or couldn’t use it.

In addition to conscription, there is a variety of food.

Rice, sweet potatoes, and corn are all arranged.

As a whole, there will be no problem in resettling one million refugees in the end.

It just needs to continue to expand.

The north is becoming more and more chaotic.

Several civil unrests have broken out.

Wen Rensheng quickly brought a large number of people with the help of local officials.

Strength develops rapidly.

At the same time, other forces at sea, including pirates and wealthy gentry, also began violent conflicts.

Both sides wanted to monopolize maritime trade.

Whether it is the Zheng family or the bureaucrats and gentry, everyone wants to do this.

The Zheng family successively killed many pirates, and then the bureaucratic gentry agents headed by Xu Xinsu, allowing themselves to monopolize the trade in the southeast as the gentry group's goods export agent.

The advantage of Wen Rensheng is that he has the reputation of a civil servant.

These days civil servants still have a natural advantage.

It is very convenient to act as an agent for bureaucrats and gentry.

He can easily obtain a large amount of goods from within his jurisdiction, and then resell them to his own fleet, other people's fleets, and the red-haired man's fleet.

There is a conflict here.

That is, piracy affects trade.

He wants to completely quell the southeastern pirates.

As for how to fight, Wen Rensheng bought large ships, armed merchant ships, cannons, and muskets from Westerners on the one hand, and opened a shipyard and gun factory to manufacture them himself.

These are all handicrafts, and they don't need much machinery at this time.

In this regard, Ming Dynasty has abundant manpower at its disposal.

In fact, there are many Westerners coming here in this era.

Just like He Hongmao, there are at least 30,000 people on the southeastern ocean.

There are at least 50,000 Western Red Hairs.

Of course, this is a mixture of old, weak, sick and disabled people.

Why do you say this?

Because after some people came to live here, they married local indigenous people and gave birth to children.

On the one hand, there are ships and guns, and on the other hand, there are people.

In terms of manpower, he recruited manpower from refugees.

They were also recruited from the West.

Wenrensheng conducts mixed employment at a ratio of 1:3.

1 Westerner matches 3 Ming Dynasty refugees.

The advantage of this is the traditional decadent power-based checks and balances.

But it can be of temporary use.

There were also various checks and balances within the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The existence of Westerners can ensure that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will not betray themselves because of their loyalty to the emperor.

After all, Westerners only value money and salary.

They can pay their own wages, as long as the casualties are not large and the conditions are not difficult, they still have professional qualities.

After all, Westerners are used to being mercenaries.

A John is happy to be a mercenary to fight against John.

If someone wants to betray him, he can use these Westerners to suppress him.

And similarly, if the Westerners want to ask for exorbitant prices and ask for sky-high hiring fees at a critical moment, they can also use refugee soldiers to suppress them.

This is the shrewdness of Wen Rensheng and his method of employing people.

He knows the methods that are ahead of the times, and he is also proficient in the bad ones.

Some people work hard to get into high positions, but then quit on their own. It is simply childish and ridiculous. He is giving up all those who follow him.

It's an infantile disease at its prime.

And Wen Rensheng will never make these mistakes.

His wisdom is unparalleled, and his will is unparalleled.

Everything can be solved at a glance, and every problem can be understood at a glance.

Refugee soldiers all recruit people with families and families.

In short, it is to be as restrictive as possible. There are bounties for fighting at sea. One hand is money and the other is hostage. With basic training and wartime military law, there is no fear that the soldiers will not work hard or die.

Of course, shipbuilding is not easy either.

Westerners are also unwilling to spread technology.

But they came to the Southeast for money.

Wen Rensheng lured them with a share of the goods and hired them to build Western ships.

Anyway, as long as you have money, there are many Western experts.

The biggest advantage these days is that many people still have no idea of ​​loyalty to the country.

Or focus on personal wealth.

There are no Western technical barriers.

There may be some specific technologies that are kept secret.

But as long as you give enough money, it's not difficult to recruit people.

Wenrensheng takes a multi-pronged approach.

At the same time, there was some betrayal happening internally.

Some people ran away with a boat full of goods.

This is the danger of being at sea.

After all the hard work, a ship was worth 100,000 taels including its cargo.

If no one saw it, or the ship didn't come back, you'd think he was shipwrecked and couldn't deal with his family.

This is why you must find someone with a family and a clan to be the captain.

A single person cannot be a captain.

No one believed in their loyalty to ship owners and shareholders.

Fortunately, Wen Rensheng had set up a sticky pole to board the ship at the beginning and killed all the betrayers.

Then the boat was chased back.

After similar things happen several times, the number of defectors will be greatly reduced.

Because they know that if they stretch out their hands, they will be cut down.

Of course I won't be stupid.

Then adopt safer methods to make money.
To be continued...